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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in EMC RSA Authentication Manager up to 7.1. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2012-2280. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.

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A vulnerability has been found in EMC RSA Authentication Manager up to 7.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

EMC RSA Authentication Manager 7.1 before SP4 P14 and RSA SecurID Appliance 3.0 before SP4 P14 do not properly use frames, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, related to a "Cross frame scripting vulnerability."

The weakness was published 07/11/2012 as ESA-2012-023 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2012-2280 since 04/19/2012. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at knowledge.rsasecurity.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at OSVDB (83762†), Secunia (SA49927†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1027247†). Similar entries are available at VDB-5664 and VDB-5667. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• EMC

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• RSA Authentication Manager

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• 7.0
• 7.1

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.dellemc.com/

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